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Saskatchewan Indian Federated College Department of Indian Education First Nations and Metis Curriculum Units - |
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Lesson 2# Emily Pauline Johnson SUBJECT: Language Arts and Social Studies TOPIC: Biography of Emily Pauline Johnson TIME FRAME: 1 class COMMON ESSENTIAL LEARNING'S: Communication, Independent Learning, Personal and Social Values. MATERIALS: Question sheets 1. OBJECTIVES:
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Objectives Cognitive: Students will... 2. RESOURCES: http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~pjohnson/life.html 3. PURPOSE/TEACHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The purpose of this lesson is to familiarize students' with Emily Pauline Johnson as a role model in Canada. Emily Pauline Johnson was born March 10, 1861 on the Six Nations Reserve near
Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Her father was George Johnson, a Mohawk and a chief of
the Six Nations Reserve. Her mother was Emily Johnson, a non-Native woman who had
come to Canada from Ohio to escape her morally-rigid, disciplinarian father when she was a
young girl. Pauline had two older brothers, Henry Beverly and Allen Wawanosh, and
one sister, Eva...... The Mohawk name Pauline Johnson used, "Tekahionwake", means "double
wampum" or "double life" in the Mohawk language. It is a fitting name
because in a way, Pauline led a double life. Although Pauline was an Indian
according to the Canadian government because her father was a Mohawk, the environment of
Chiefswood where she grew up was largely non-Native. At the same time, Pauline
thought of herself as purely Native. She even called white people
"palefaces". Pauline could and did fit into the white world, but found
that she had to assert her Native identity when she was in white society. 4. ACTIVITIES/IDEAS: The students' will start with the study of Canadian Emily Pauline Johnson. The
background information about her should begin by identifying that she was a First Nations
poet and story writer. Discuss the students' findings after the question sheet has been completed. After doing research on E. Pauline Johnson discuss with your
students' whether or not they should induct E. Pauline Johnson into the Hall of Fame. 5. EVALUATION:
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